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We’re excited that next week, we’ll be welcoming another set of big innovations here at XebiaLabs: the 6.0 release of our analyst-lauded XebiaLabs DevOps platform.

With DevOps adoption expanding across the enterprise, the 6.0 release of XL Release and XL Deploy helps large organizations simplify and better manage the growing complexity of their DevOps initiatives. Our 6.0 platform focuses on providing the visibility, flexibility and compliance features enterprises need to scale their DevOps release processes and keep up with business demands.

The new features empower teams across the business to manage releases at enterprise scale, delivering…

Better capability to manage releases at large scale, from a central location, across many teams

Deeper insight into the release process and better intelligence to make decisions

More flexibility to manage and present release data in the most efficient way for each team

Simplified auditing and regulatory compliance

Release Highlights

Multi-functional Release Folders – using the new folders feature, companies can easily organize, manage and secure release information across hundreds of teams, applications and releases. IT can manage the release process in one central location and provide reusable release templates globally for all teams. Role-based access control secures data and gives individual teams the flexibility to access to their data alone with an uncluttered view.

XL Release 6.0 introduces multi-functional release folders, an intuitive way to organize release assets by project, by team or whatever model fits the organization.

Flexible Release Tags – users now have the option to classify tasks in a release with keywords using customizable tags. This simple yet highly flexible functionality allows teams to easily group or filter related parts of a release such as security tasks, database tasks, deployment tasks, or anything else that helps them understand and optimize the release.

More flexible tagging allows users to attach tags to any task within a release. From the release table view, users can apply a filter to display only the release tasks that have a specified tag or tags.

More Powerful Dashboards for Compliance and Security – the new Release Task Progress dashboard tile type helps you identify and report on related parts of large, complex releases. Each dashboard component, or “tile”, allows simple yet powerful reporting on important dimensions of a release including security and compliance, two areas that all too often have relied on manual data-gathering and reporting.

A new Task Progress dashboard tile lets teams easily configure their own customizable views on their release dashboards based on specific tags.

Enhanced Productivity for Large-scale Deployments – users also will enjoy optimizations such as more flexible dependency management, performance improvements and better system continuity with hot standby. Teams also gain better control over deployments to remote data centers and more visibility into the remote deployment process.

What Users Think

Some of our users have already previewed the new release. Matt Cipollone, Manager of Enterprise Build and Deployment Automation at Paychex, summarized the sentiment well: “By implementing tools from XebiaLabs and supporting processes, we have proven that we can release software more consistently, with more insight into bottlenecks than ever before, backed by hard data. This data helps us drive continuous improvement as we strive to increase our enterprise maturity in Continuous Delivery and leverage our cross-functional DevOps culture to obtain results.”

He went on to add that his team is “excited about the new features available in XL Release 6.0, which will further simplify usage for our teams, offer better controls, more flexible permissions, and provide even more data to help us make well-informed decisions around delivery of solutions to our customers.”

What Top Analysts Say About XebiaLabs

XebiaLabs is highly regarded by leading industry analysts. Gartner named XebiaLabs as a leader in its 2016 Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation, while Forrester cited us as top-ranked in the Strategy category of the Forrester Wave™ Application Release Automation, Q3 2016 report. You can download both the Gartner and Forrester reports from our website for free.

See for Yourself!

Version 6.0 of both products will be available for download on November 9. And even if you aren’t a current user, you can still try out a full version of XL Release and XL Deploy free for 30 days.

Lisa K. Wells is the Vice President of Product Marketing at XebiaLabs. Leveraging more than 25 years of experience in software, Lisa is laser-focused on creating value in the software development pipeline, crafting go-to-market plans, honing company messaging, and spearheading general cat-herding activities. After starting her career as an Applications Engineer, she moved to the "Dark Side" – product marketing – where she developed a passion for helping companies effectively build, market, and sell technology that provides life-changing value to customers. Over the last 12 years, Lisa has been at the forefront of building winning product strategies and messaging for some of the world’s leading software tooling companies, working with SmartBear and CloudBees before joining XebiaLabs in 2015.

The Reality of Software Releases

Many organizations model software delivery as if the features that are initially planned for a release are always the features that are actually delivered to production when the release is done. But the reality of software releases is more complicated than that, because it’s hard to predict the delivery of planned features. The XebiaLabs DevOps Platform can help you deal with the reality of software releases. See for yourself!

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